13 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

break, destroy, censure, be chipped, be scratched, be broken, be ruined

Kun'yomi
  • こぼ
    to destroy
  • to be chipped
  • to break ②to wreck ③to break (a bill, etc.)
  • to be broken ②to fall through
  • そし
  • やぶ
On'yomi

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

こわこわれる 55.6%
44.4%

Character Breakdown

break, destroy, censure
こわ.す キ こぼ.つ (11th)
mortar
うす キュウ グ (11th)
soil, earth, ground
ド つち は (1st, N5)
pike, windy-again radical (no. 79)
シュ また ほこ (Kentei 1)
table, table enclosure, table or windy radical (no. 16)
キ きにょう (Kentei 1)
or again, furthermore, on the other hand
また ユウ やす (8th, N1)

Contained In

Common Words

abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)
praise and censure
destruction
defamation
completely destroying by fire
breaking ②being broken
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References

Unicode hex code 6BC0
JIS X 0208 1-52-44
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 2460
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 3000
Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary 1791
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 2246
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 1592
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2067
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 1532
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 16654
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 1897
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 3b10.14
Four corner code 7714.7